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Wednesday, July 29. 2026

Wednesday afternoon links

 How Does Age Affect Sexual Desire?


Researchers just uncovered more about the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. Findings really underscore ‘how unlucky the dinosaurs were,’ researcher says


 Ancient Roman Concrete Keeps Getting Stronger, And The Secret Was Hiding in Hadrian's 2,000-Year-Old Toilet


 A New Racket Sport Is Taking Over the Country. You Can Thank This Man. It's Padel, not Pickle


"We were right about Covid" 


 Upward Mobility Is a Better Measure of Justice Than Income Equality


 DSA's Solemn Vow: We Win an Election, You Lose a Country.


DOJ: Fifth Circuit ‘Rules Illegal Aliens Do Not Have a Constitutional Right to Roam Free’ - Did four immigration judges in Tacoma know they would trigger a legal firestorm and likely SCOTUS review?


 DSA history


Mamdani's -- your one-stop socialist superstore! Zohran, Tribune of the People, has at last unveiled his plan for government-owned grocery stores


 Mayor Zohran Mamdani Is Open to Making New Yorkers Pay Slave Reparations


 Anatomy of a Police Shooting in Madison


 Douglas Murray: Europe Spins Another Islamist Attack


 South African mobs are going door to door to kick out migrants. Socialism drives their xenophobia


 Burnham Thinks Nationalisation Will Cure Britain. He’s in For a Very Nasty Shock

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Well, there's a big difference between desire and ability: How Does Age Affect Sexual Desire?
#1 ronetc (Link) on 2026-07-29 17:16 (Reply)
re 'We were right about Covid"

We were right. Most of what was listed was known early on, by the end of January. We could see the economic and personal damage that was coming but the panicked stampede couldn't be stopped.

This was a sterling example of the inability of people to assess risk, and the opportunists were quick to take advantage.
#2 feeblemind on 2026-07-29 17:24 (Reply)
QUOTE:
"We were right about Covid"

Virtually all of the claims are inaccurate or misleading.

QUOTE:
- Case fatality rate was low

Over a million Americans died from Covid. (Multiple independent measures include death records and excess mortality.)
 
#2.1 Zachriel on 2026-07-30 08:06 (Reply)
Over a million Americans died from "something". Strangely none died from none died from flu. Or more likely the flu deaths were attributed to covid. Many died from the treatment, Remdesivir is deadly and ineffective. Many died by being forced to stay in nursing homes with infected patients. And then there was the strange treatment choices forced on hospitals which statistically always resulted in death.

The covid epidemic allowed lawmakers to throw trillions of dollars out the door and allowed scammers and fraud to steal trillions of dollars. In the end "THAT" may have been what it was all about. A cabal of corrupt politicians and thieves and lawyers (but I digress), used a fake emergency to loot the treasury. And along the way inevitably the common crooks and scammers joined the fray and walked away with trillions of our tax dollars.

I want 5:00 AM SWAT raids and public frog walking of these crooks and so far little to none of that has happened. The Coie Law Firm may have been the masterminds behind this massive scam and they are all comfortably sitting on their billions of ill gotten gain. They are too big and too connected to prosecute. So it is likely that no one will ever be arrested and prosecuted. And to make sure that nothing happens it is essential that we keep telling the lies about covid.
#2.1.1 OneGuy on 2026-07-30 09:57 (Reply)
OneGuy: Strangely none died from none died from flu.

That's right. Testing showed that influenza in circulation was at historically low levels, largely due to social distancing and masking.

OneGuy: Or more likely the flu deaths were attributed to covid.

There's a test for that. Of over a million such tests, only 0.2% were positive for influenza.
#2.1.2 Zachriel on 2026-07-30 10:42 (Reply)
Missing one big one: hospitals were given extra federal reimbursement if they linked deaths to Covid. So we don’t really even know how dangerous it was because the data is corrupted.

That is exactly how you got a healthy 22-year-old who died of blunt force trauma from a motorcycle accident listed as a covid fatality.
#2.1.3 Zachinoff on 2026-07-30 16:17 (Reply)
Let’s not forget sending covid patients to nursing homes filled with elderly people with comorbidities. Still hard to believe no one has been jailed for that one.
#2.1.3.1 Rusty on 2026-08-05 09:24 (Reply)
Thanks for some good links.
#3 Pod Hamp on 2026-07-29 17:28 (Reply)
QUOTE:
Upward Mobility Is a Better Measure of Justice Than Income Equality

By the measure of intergenerational income mobility the United States generally fairs poorer than most peer countries. (Corak, Income Inequality, Equality of Opportunity, and Intergenerational Mobility, Journal of Economic Perspectives 2013.) In general, countries with high income inequality tend to have lower intergenerational income mobility, a phenomenon known as the Great Gatsby Curve.
#4 Zachriel on 2026-07-30 08:33 (Reply)

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